·After verifying that up2date is at the latest revision
and the development and production environment are the same you must first down
load the patches on the all the servers that are being patched and install
patches on the development servers for testing.

·This will download and save only the updates/packages in
/var/spool/up2date or what is defined in line 9 of up2date-config file

·Run
only if packages are downloaded into non-default directories

Example:

#up2date –iuk
/var/spool

·This will download patches/rpm into a custom
directory. The default download directory is /var/spool/up2date.If the updates/packages have already been
downloaded, use this option below to install the downloaded updates/packages.

·This will check for downloaded patches first
before downloading from the RHN. The default download directory is
/var/spool/up2date.If the
updates/packages have already been downloaded, use this option to install the
downloaded updates/packages first before checking the RHN for updates/packages.

·After verifying that yum download utility is installed and the
development and production environment are the same you must first down load
the patches on the all the servers that are being patched and install patches
on the development server for testing